Cuff-holder.



No. 735,381. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903. J. B. HOUGH.

CUFF HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE'B. 1902.

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Patented August 4, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. HOUGH, OF ERVING, MASSACHUSETTS.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IPatent No. 735,381, dated August4, 1903.

Application filed June 3,1902.

Serial No. 110,056. (No model.)

zen of the United States, residing at Erving,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective viewillustrating. the application of a cud-holder constructed according tomy invention to the ordinary cud, and Fig. 2 is a perspective viewshowing the clasp opened for attachment to a cuff.

The cuff-receiving clasp of a cuff-holder constructed according to thisinvention is preferably formed from a single piece of wire, which may beconnected at its lower end to an ordinary spring-clamp. A looseconnection is preferably employed between the wire clasp and the clamp,so as to permit freedom of motion between the parts. The inside arm ofthe wire body portion is provided at its end with a loop for engagingthe inner face i of the cud-holder and with an outwardly-extending hook,which may be passed through the buttonholes of the cuff to receive theother arm of the wire body portion and hold the same in placesubstantially in the same manneras an ordinary safety-pin catch.

Referring to the drawings for a detail dethe plane of the loop 13.Engaging the loop :10 at the-lower end of the wire body portion is aloop 15, formed on the end of the pivot of an ordinary sheet-metalspring-clamp 16.

In the use of a cuff-holder as thus constructed the book 14 of the claspis inserted through the buttonholes of the cuff from the inside, theloop 13 giving a wide bearing on the inner face of the cuff. The wireclasp is locked in place by fastening the spring-arm 12 in the hook 1ain the same manner as an ordinary safety-pin. The sheet-metal clamp 16may then be adjustably fastened to the shirtsleeve, and the looseconnection between the wire body portion and the pivot-pin of the clamp16 permits a' freedom of motion, allowing the cuff-holder to adjustitself to substantially all positions, so that the same may be usedwithout danger of tearing the clothing or injuring the cuffs.

I am aware that a number of different cuffholders are now in use inwhich a clasp for the cuff is combined with the ordinary springclamp,and I do not desire to claim such a construction broadly. My cud-holder,however, diifers from previous forms of cud-holders in the use of theclasp or body portion formed from a single piece of wire bent intospecial shape.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

As an article of manufacture, a cuff-holder comprising a wire clasp andsheet metal clamp, the pivot-pin of the clamp having a loop 15 engaginga loop 10 of the wire clasp, one of the spring-arms 11 of the wire clasphaving a loop 13 at its upper end for engaging the inner side of a cuff,and a hook 14:

adapted to be inserted through the button- 0 JOHN B. HOUGH.

Witnesses:

HARRY N. BLAGKNEER, CARRIE L. HOUGH.

